To Provide Full Crews on Trains in Interstate Commerce: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 59, to Promote the Safety of Employees and Travelers Upon Railroads by Compelling Common Carriers by Railroad Engaged in Interstate and Foreign Commerce to Man Locomotives, Trains, and Other Self-propelled Engines Or Machines with Competent Employees, to Provide the Least Number of Men that May be Employed on Locomotives, Trains, and Other Self-propelled Engines Or Machines, to Provide Qualifications for Certain Employees, and Providing a Penalty for the Violation Thereof. June 19 to 27, 1935 ... |
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Page 46 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Fred H.
Page 121 - When- a train is moving under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the flagman must take such action as may be necessary to insure full protection. By night, or by day when the view is obscured, lighted fusees must be thrown off at proper intervals.
Page 212 - Contrary to much popular impression, the railroads are not in the aggregate overcapitalized in the sense that the par value of outstanding securities exceeds the money invested in the properties.
Page 64 - Injury to an employee sufficient to incapacitate him from performing his ordinary duties for more than 3 days in the aggregate during the 10 days immediately following the accident.
Page 121 - The front of a train must be protected in the same way, when necessary, by the . 100. When the flagman goes back to protect the rear of his train, the must, in the case of passenger trains, and the next brakeman in the case of other trains, take his place on the train.
Page 123 - ... to the master of the vessel : Provided, That the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the employment of seamen at a foreign port or place, in which case seamen so employed shall be furnished a continuous discharge book or a certificate of identification, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, at the first port of entry in the United States or its territories...